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Notes for Hans Peter Kleinfelter and Eva Elizabeth Kunkel

1702 Johann Peter, son of Hanß Georg Kleinfelter of Flörsbach, was baptized on April 2 with sponsor uncle Johann Peter Kleinfeller [brother of Hanß Georg]. The record is at the church at Lohrhaupten-Gelnhausen, Kassel, Germany. [1] [2] [3]

1703 Eva Elisabeth, daughter of Bst Kunkel, was baptized on September 29 in Flörsbach, Gelnhausen, Hessen, Germany with sponsor Eva Elizabeth, Hartmans frau. [4] [5]

1724 Peter Kleinfelter and Eva Elizabeth Kunkel were married at the Kempfenbrunn Church on June 12. [6] [7]

A map show Flörsbach, Lohrhaupten, and Kempfebrunn (in pink) about the time Peter Kleinfelter and Eva Elizabeth Kunkel were married. [8].

1728
1728 Map extract of the Flörsbach region. [9]

1750 Melchior Kleinfelter, the oldest son, left home accompanied his Uncle George Cunkel to sail to Pennsylvania on the ship Priscilla, a year before his parents. [10]

A map shows Flörsbach, Lohrhaupten, and Kempfebrunn (in green) about the time they left Germany for America.

1754
1754 Map extract of the Flörsbach region. [11]

1751 Johann Peter Kleinfeller, of Flörsbach was on a list of emigrants, registered in Hessen-Hanau, Germany. George and Johann Kunckel, Eve's brothers, were also listed [12]. Hans Peter Kleinfeller, wife, and 5 children emigrated from Flörsbach, Hesse, Germany, via Portsmouth, England to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on the ship Duke of Bedford. [13] [14]

Johann Peter Kleinfeller, aus Flörsbach, verheiratet mit 8 Kindern, hat 1751 bereitz zwei heimlich entwichene Kinder in Pennsylvania (wohl die 23- und 16-jährigen Söhne). Er hat Haft hinter sich, ging nicht zur Kirche und zum Abendmahl, die Töchter im Alter von 25 und 19 Jähren - bei einen Gesamivermögen der Familie von 445 Gulden ohne jede Heiratschance - trieben Unzucht, so daß dessen Haushaltung überhaupt so beschaffen ist, daß man Urasche zu wünschen habe, seiner los zu werden. Best. 80, I-II, XXXII B, Nr. 59, f. 1 f.


c 1700 Cornelis Boumeester, View of Rotterdam.
A tile painting, composed of 33 Delft tiles (trimmed).
Courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston [15]


1831 Gosport, Entrance to Portsmouth Harbour by William Turner. [16]
Courtesy of the Tate Galleries, London [© Tate]

1751 Peter Kleinfelter [Klinsteller][with wife Eve, and five of their six children?] arrived in Philadelphia on September 14 on the "Duke of Bedford" along with her brother Lawrence Kunkel/Hunckel and his family. [17] [18] Eve was the fourth of Sebastian Kunkel's children to immigrate to Pennsylvania.


1768 The city of Philadelphia, from the Jersey shore [19]

1751 Peter Kleinfelter and other passengers took an oath of fidelity at the courthouse in Philadelphia the day that the ship arrived. [20]


1752 Philadelphia State House (built in 1732) [21]

While Eve's brother Lawrence headed to Northampton County to be near his other brothers, who had preceded him, Peter and Eve Kleinfelter settled in York County.


1756 Southern Pennsylvania. York and Philadelphia are in lower-right. [22]

1754 Son Melchior Kleinfelter and his Pennsylvania wife, Catherine Gernant, had their daughter Elizabetha baptized on September 11, at Moselem Lutheran Church in Ontelaunee Township, about 12 miles south of George's homestead in Albany Twp, both in present day Berks County. [23]

1784 Peter, Michael, John, Lawrence, and George Kleinfelter were taxed in Shrewsbury Twp, York County. [24]

1785 Peter, Michael, John, Lawrence, and George Kleinfelter were taxed in Shrewsbury Twp, York County. [25]

1786 Peter, Michael, John, and Lawrence, Kleinfelter were taxed in Shrewsbury Twp, York County. [26]

1786 Peter Kleinfelter was listed in the septennial census for Shrewsbury, York County, Pennsylvania. Joh, Michael, and Lawrence Kleinfelder, perhaps sons or brothers, were listed on the same page. [27]

1787 Peter, Michael, John, and Lawrence, Kleinfelter were taxed in Shrewsbury Twp, York County. [28]

1793 Peter, Michael Jr and Sr, John, Jacob, and Lawrence, Clinefelter were taxed in Shrewsbury Twp, York County. [29]

1795 Peter Clinefelter was taxed with 300 acres of land in Shrewsbury Twp, York County, along with several other Clinefelters. [30]

Peter Kleinfelter had died by 1797, perhaps, since Elizabeth was taxed in that year.

1797 Elizabeth Kleinfelter was taxed with 180 acres of land in Shrewsbury Twp, York County, along with several other Kleinfelters. [31]

1798 Widow Elizabeth Kleinfelter was listed on the US direct tax in York County, Pennsylvania with wood house (20 by 30 feet) on a 2 acre lot [return number 64, List 1]. Widow Elizabeth Kleinfelter was listed with house on a 2 acre lot. [return 64, List A]. Elizabeth Klinefelter was listed with house, stone barn on 190 acres adjacent to Adam Shaffer. [return 110, List 2]. [32] [33]


1797 Pennsylvania, extract of York County,
before Adams was made a separate county.
Shrewsbury is south of the "O" in York. [34]

1800 Elizabeth Klinepeter (age 45+) lived in Shrewsbury Twp, York County, Pennsylvania in a household with 8 other persons age 0-25. Adam Sheffer was listed nearby. [35]

1800 Widow Elizabeth Klinefelter was taxed in Shrewsbury Twp, York County for 200 acres of land. [36]

Elizabeth Kleinfelter had died by 1801, perhaps, since she was no longer taxed in York County.

1801 Widow Elizabeth Klinefelter was not named on the tax list. [37]
1803 Widow Elizabeth Klinefelter was not named on the tax list. [38]

Map
c 1821 Whiteside-Melish Map of York County, South-West portion.
The Kleinfelder Mill is shown near
Strasburg in southern Shrewsbury township. [39]

Research Notes:

We seek sources and further documentation for the following:

Church records of Kempfenbrunn and Florsbach: "In the years 1748 to 1754 and in 1766, 167 persons emigrated to Pennsylvania from Florsbach and Kempfenbrunn, or from 1748 to 1754, 90 persons (1748, 22 persons; 1749, 2; 1750, 24; 1751, 32; 1752, 2 and 1754, 8), and in 1766, 77 persons." This reduced the population of these two towns about 20 percent. The list of emigrants for the aforenamed years follows: 1748, from Florsbach: Hans Kunkle with wife and 6 children. George Steigerwald with wife and 3 children. Friedrich Reitz with wife and 1 child. Eberhard Kunkle. Catharina Keyserin with 1 child.
from Kempfrenbrunn: Johann Adam Dietrich. Peter Kohler. Margaretha Uhlin.
1749, from Florsbach: Peter Steigerwald, son Johannes Steigerwald. Johannes Steigerwald, son of Melchior Steigerald.
1750, from Florsbach: George Kunkle with wife and 3 children. Johannes Huth with wife and 4 children. Elisabeth Kleinfellerin with 1 child. Andreas Schuster, Wehl, son of George Schuster. Melchior Kleinfeller, son of Hans Peter Kleinfeller. Eberhard Steigerwald, stepson of Melchior Kunkle.
from Kempfrenbrunn: Peter Hartman with wife and 4 children. Anna Maria Fischerin, daughter of Henrich Fischer. Friedrich Steinberger, son of Casper Steinberger.
1751, from Florsbach: Lorenz Kunkle with wife and 1 child. Hans Peter Klienfeller with wife and 1 child. Magdalena Kayserin with 1 child. Regina Kayserin with 1 child. Hans Adam Koch with 1 wife and 5 children. Anna Maria Dietrichin, daughter of Peter Dietrich.
from Kempfrenbrunn: Michael Fischer, Jr., with wife and 3 children. Peter Herr with wife and 2 children. Philipp Dill.
1752, from Kempfrenbrunn: Johannes Hartman and his wife.
1754, from Florsbach: Johannes Schuster. from Kempfrenbrunn: Nicolaus Keppler with wife and 2 children. Philipp Lindenberger's sons, Adam and Michel. Magdalena, daughter of Casper Steinberger. Departed for Pennsylvania in 1766 from Kempfrenbrunn: Michael Kohler with woman and 2 children. Johannes Steingerger with wife and 4 children. Henrich Heuser with wife and 1 child. Margareta Kohlerin and Johannes Koholer, children of Michel Kohler. Lipps Linneberger's W and son. Peter Kohler's W and 1 daughter. from Florsbach: Henrich Kunkle with woman and 2 children, Melchior Kunkle's W. Casper Dietrich with woman and 4 children. Johannes Hens with woman and 2 children. Melchior Schuster's W with 3 sons. Johannes Bauer with wife and 7 children. Friedrich Steigerwald with wife and 4 children. Magdalena, a born Herr from Ulrick. Schoolmaster Bach's W with 4 children. Johannes Kleinfeller with wife and 1 son. Johannes Steigerwald with wife and 3 children. Johannes Kunkle with wife and 1 child. Catharina _utin, a single maid and Adam Steigerwald's W. Hanns Michel Kunkle, smith, son of Melchior Kunkle. Margaretha Dietrichin, daughter of Herm Schulther's Dietrich. Yet from Florsbach: Catharina Heuserin, a single maid with 1 son. Margaretha Uhlin, daughter of Johannes Uhl, miller.


Footnotes:

[1] Germany, Kurhessen-Waldeck, Kassel, Gelnhausen, Lohrhaupten, Tauf 1700-1830, image 1916, [ArchionImage].

[2] Christina Hoffman and Bob Rowland, The Sons of Sebastian Kunkel (2000), 56.

[3] James Erwin Kunkle, Descendants of Hans Kunkel, born 1530 in Germany (2002), 21, [FHL_Catalog_(Starts_on_image_183)].

[4] Germany, Kurhessen-Waldeck, Kassel, Gelnhausen, Lohrhaupten, KB 1675-1710, image 1874, [ArchionImage].

[5] James Erwin Kunkle, Descendants of Hans Kunkel, born 1530 in Germany (2002), 13, 21, [FHL_Catalog_(Starts_on_image_183)].

[6] Christina Hoffman and Bob Rowland, The Sons of Sebastian Kunkel (2000), 56, citing Records from the Parish Church in Kempfenbrun, Hessen, Germany.

[7] James Erwin Kunkle, Descendants of Hans Kunkel, born 1530 in Germany (2002), 21, [FHL_Catalog_(Starts_on_image_183)].

[8] Wikipedia article about Fl%C3%B6rsbachtal, content subject to change, [Wikipedia].

[9] Friedrich Zollmann, Comitatus Hanau, Map of Hanau and vicinity (Nuremberg: 1728), [Old Maps Online].

[10] I. Daniel Rupp, A Collection of Upwards of Thirty Thousand Names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and other Immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776, 2nd ed. (1875), 240, right column, bottom, uncle George is in the left column, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].

[11] Christian Maximilian Bronner, VI. Folium Hasso-Casselanas, ubi Cassel Hirschfeld, Ziegenhayn Terras Waldeccianas (Nürnberg, Homannianorum Heredum: 1754), [Old Maps Online].

[12] Clifford Neal Smith, Emigrants from the principality of Hessen-Hanau, Germany, 1741-1767 (1979), 8 item 59, 17, 18, [GoogleBooks].

[13] Jane Adams Clarke, "Emigrants from Hesse, Germany, Who Left One After Another for Pennsylvania 1748-1766," Pennsylvania German Roots Across the Ocean (2000), 151-, at 152, [GoogleBooks].

[14] Inge Auerbach, Auswanderung aus Kurhessen: nach Osten oder Westen?, 70, [URL].

[15] Cornelis Boumeester, View of Rotterdam, A tile painting, composed of 33 Delft tiles. (about 1700–20, Courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), [MFA], [MFA terms of use].

[16] Joseph Mallord William Turner, Gosport, Entrance to Portsmouth Harbour from Picturesque Views in England and Wales (1831) [Courtesy of the Tate Gallery, Photo © Tate, CC-BY-NC-ND 3.0 (Unported)], [Tate Gallery].

[17] Ralph B. Strassburger, William J. Hinke, ed., Pennsylvania German Pioneers, Vol. 1 (1934, Pennsylvania German Society), 459, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].

[18] I. Daniel Rupp, A Collection of Upwards of Thirty Thousand Names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and other Immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776, 2nd ed. (1875), 253, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].

[19] Thomas Jefferys, George Heap, An east prospect of the city of Philadelphia; taken by George Heap from the Jersey shore (London: 1768), [LibraryOfCongress], [LibraryOfCongress Catalog].

[20] John B. Linn and William Henry Egle, Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, Volume 17. (Oath of Allegiance 1727-1775) (1890), 335, upper left, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].

[21] Nicholas Scull, George Heap, A Map of Philadelphia and Parts Adjacent with a Perspective of the State House (Philadelphia: 1752), [LibraryOfCongress], [LibraryOfCongress Catalog].

[22] Thomas Kitchin, A map of the province of Pensilvania (London: 1756), [LibraryOfCongress Map].

[23] Christina Hoffman and Bob Rowland, The Sons of Sebastian Kunkel (2000), 56.

[24] York County, Pennsylvania, Township assessment lists, 1762-1849, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].

[25] York County, Pennsylvania, Township assessment lists, 1762-1849, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].

[26] York County, Pennsylvania, Township assessment lists, 1762-1849, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].

[27] Pennsylvania, Septennial Census, 1779-1863, 1786, York, Shrewsbury, entry 81, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[28] York County, Pennsylvania, Township assessment lists, 1762-1849, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].

[29] York County, Pennsylvania, Township assessment lists, 1762-1849, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].

[30] York County, Pennsylvania, Township assessment lists, 1762-1849, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].

[31] York County, Pennsylvania, Township assessment lists, 1762-1849, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].

[32] Pennsylvania, U.S. Direct Tax Lists, 1798, 1st assessment district of sixth division, Shrewsbury Twp, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[33] Pennsylvania, U.S. Direct Tax Lists, 1798, widow, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[34] Daniel Friedrich Sotzmann, Pennsylvania (Hamburg, Carl Ernst Bohn: 1797), [David Rumsey].

[35] United States Federal Census, 1800, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].

[36] York County, Pennsylvania, Township assessment lists, 1762-1849, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].

[37] York County, Pennsylvania, Township assessment lists, 1762-1849, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].

[38] York County, Pennsylvania, Township assessment lists, 1762-1849, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].

[39] Whiteside, Melish, Map of York County, Pennsylvania (Commissioned by Pennsylvania: after 1821), [PA Museum].